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By Juan Cole — Not since the end of the Cold War in 1991 has Russia asserted itself so forcefully beyond its borders.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on May 13, 2013
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Osama Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions —
Posted on May 12, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on May 9, 2013
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By William Pfaff — The present debate in the United States over making policy for a Middle East that has been profoundly changed by the events of the past three years unhappily echoes past policies that failed.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on May 7, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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After the deadliest month of political fighting in five years, Iraq appears to be sliding rapidly into a new civil war that “will be worse than Syria,” leaders say.
Posted on May 4, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists ask, in the context of the new jobs report, whether the U.S. has two economies. Also, Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio wants immigration reform and President Obama does also, so what will it take to get it passed?
Posted on May 3, 2013
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“In any normal society,” writes a skeptical Robert Fisk of the media and government blowup over the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, “the red lights would now be flashing.”
Posted on May 1, 2013
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When female writers disappeared from the Wikipedia heading “American novelists,” more than a few eyebrows were raised; Pvt. Bradley Manning being revoked as grand marshal of the San Francisco Gay Pride parade proves that the military-industrial complex rules all; meanwhile, another price-fixing scandal reminiscent of Libor is about to explode. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 1, 2013
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Seeking to clarify his “red line” position on the Syrian government’s possible use of chemical weapons, President Obama said Tuesday that he would consider a “range of options,” but he also urged patience.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama is right to resist the mounting pressure for military intervention in Syria. Action by U.S. forces may or may not make the situation better—but certainly could make things worse.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Apr 28, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss the White House’s belief that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. How should President Obama respond if such a red line has been crossed?
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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More than half of the population of Syria will likely need aid by the end of the year, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees has warned, adding that the civil crisis is the most serious the global body has ever dealt with.
Posted on Apr 19, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the American war machine might be revving up for another strike, this time in Syria.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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By Juan Cole — Paul’s strand of libertarianism, insofar as it deeply distrusts big government, typically opposes policies that increase the size and power of government, chief among them ones pertaining to war.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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Governments in the Middle East and across the world are exploiting the long chaos of Syria’s populist uprising to gain influence in the region. And Syrians—70,000 of whom have been killed in the conflict—are paying the price with their bodies and lives.
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Mar 9, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The civil war in Syria is not a romantic democratic uprising, although one could get that impression from accounts in mainstream media outlets.
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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By Juan Cole — The foreign policy of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez imagined that socialism and anti-imperialism are the same thing, and that he could lead a new sort of socialist international. These considerations shaped his Middle East policy in ways that were contradictory and hypocritical.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Feb 11, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — When it comes to torture in the post 9/11 era, the record of the United States is so appalling that one must question our claimed abhorrence of the barbarism of other nations.
Posted on Feb 7, 2013
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Osama Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions —
Posted on Feb 6, 2013
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By William Pfaff — Military interventions by powerful nations into lesser ones, such as now continues in Mali (and Afghanistan), and is being urged by many into the Syrian civil war, are inherently reckless since even the most powerful states can have the whole project blow up on them.
Posted on Feb 5, 2013
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Egypt took a turn for the diplomatically dicey in Cairo on Tuesday when an angry man who apparently hailed from Syria chose to express his displeasure with Ahmadinejad’s support of the Syrian regime by lobbing a shoe at the Iranian leader.
Posted on Feb 5, 2013
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As he watches neighboring Syria “implode,” the king of Jordan worries that the country will fracture and become a hotbed of religious extremism.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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You know you’re on shaky ground when you quote a source like the defense secretary with the words, “He basically said. ...” FAIR’s Peter Hart compares ABC’s lazy quoting on Syrian chemical weapons to the kind of WMD fear mongering that led the U.S. to war with Iraq.
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
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Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
Posted on Jan 25, 2013
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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More than 80 people were killed in two blasts that struck the University of Aleppo in northern Syria on the first day of exams. The bombs exploded between a residence hall and an architecture facility.
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
Posted on Jan 3, 2013
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Osama Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions —
Posted on Jan 3, 2013
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Jan 2, 2013
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Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
Posted on Jan 2, 2013
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Osama Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions —
Posted on Dec 27, 2012
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Osama Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions —
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Juan Cole shares his informed comment on Syrian chemical weapons, Israeli apartheid and Egyptian unrest. Also, Robert Scheer on Bradley Manning.
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Juan Cole shares his informed comment on Syrian chemical weapons, Israeli apartheid and Egyptian unrest. Also, Robert Scheer on Bradley Manning.
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a serious female contender to become the next defense secretary and Nate Silver’s analysis of gun ownership in America.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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By William Pfaff — The United States and the European Union remain impotent or irresolute observers of the most important issues of political “governance” of concern these days.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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